Vista showing clock of 3.6ghz when it's really 3.8ghz

[magicroundabout]

i've clocked my cpu in my new board to 3.8ghz but vista only shows it as 3.6ghz.

why has it done this and can i fix it?

 

[Killwerty]

tbh, does it really matter what Vista picks it up as, if CPU-Z can tell that it's 3.8Ghz?

 

[reflux]

SpeedStep?

 

[AndyOcUK]

Its the multiplier.

 

[magicroundabout]

how do you mean the multiplier?

(sorry for late reply. been on hols for a week)

 

[CurlyWhirly]

how do you mean the multiplier?

Have a read of this thread, I was caught out by SpeedStep too as my old processor didn't have it

 

[magicroundabout]

i understand speed step but how would vista get the clock wrong?

 

[Antx777]

My QX9650 Showed <24> Ghz at one time!, probably measuring the seperate cores - not sure. I don't even bother looking at Vista rating for CPU speed -nor much else for that matter


~Ant

 

[Artic7]

I asked this last year
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17845071

 

[CurlyWhirly]

i understand speed step but how would vista get the clock wrong?

Ah I see.

What I've found is that if the CPU isn't overclocked in the BIOS (i.e. before Vista loads) then if you overclock it afterwards by a Windows based overclocking utility, then even though it is overclocked and CPU-Z shows it to be, Vista still shows the default stock speed